Walter Jetz

Walter Jetz is Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and of the Environment at Yale University where he directs the Yale Center for Biodiversity and Global Change. He is Scientific Chair of the EO Wilson Biodiversity Foundation and co-chairs the Species Population Working Group of GEO BON. For IPBES, he was member and co-manager of the Task Force on Data and Knowledge, chaired the Task Group on Indicators and was Lead Author of the Global Assessment. He directs Map of Life, a platform addressing global species populations and their change, and the Half-Earth Project Map which identifies global priorities for area-based conservation. Walter is also a founding steering member of Wildlife Insights and steering committee member of the Global Mountain Biodiversity Assessment. Addressing questions in ecology, evolution, and conservation, he has been an ISI Highly Cited Researcher annually since 2014 and has mentored over thirty students and postdocs who are now in tenure-track faculty or tenured research positions.